Professor
Kevin MacDonald (Univ of S California
at Long Beach) has written a brilliant
essay in the course of reviewing the book
"The Jewish Century" by Yuri Slezkine. The
full article was published in The
Occidental Quarterly, and a shortened
essay based on that article has now been
posted to the immigration restrictionist
website vdare.com.

HERE ARE THE BEGINNING AND ENDING OF
THE PDF ARTICLE FROM OCCIDENTAL
QUARTERLY:

A PERSISTENT theme among critics of Jews
-- particularly those on the pre-World War
II right -- has been that the Bolshevik
revolution was a Jewish revolution and
that the Soviet Union was dominated by
Jews. This theme appears in a wide range
of writings, from Henry Ford's
International Jew, to published statements
by a long list of British, French, and
American political figures in the 1920s
(Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, and
David Lloyd George), and, in its most
extreme form, by Adolf Hitler, who
wrote:

Now begins the last great revolution.
By wresting political power for himself,
the Jew casts off the few remaining shreds
of disguise he still wears. The democratic
plebeian Jew turns into the blood Jew and
the tyrant of peoples. In a few years he
will try to exterminate the national
pillars of intelligence and, by robbing
the peoples of their natural spiritual
leadership, will make them ripe for the
slavish lot of a permanent subjugation.
The most terrible example of this is
Russia. [1]

This long tradition stands in sharp
contradiction to the official view,
promulgated by Jewish organizations and
almost all contemporary historians, that
Jews played no special role in Bolshevism
and indeed were specifically victimized by
it. Yuri Slezkine's book provides a much
needed resolution to these opposing
perspectives. It is an intellectual tour
de force, alternately muddled and
brilliant, courageous and apologetic.

THE
victory over National Socialism set the
stage for the tremendous increase in
Jewish power in the post-World War II
Western world, in the end more than
compensating for the decline of Jews in
the Soviet Union. As Slezkine shows, the
children of Jewish immigrants assumed an
elite position in the United States, just
as they had in the Soviet Union and
throughout Eastern Europe and Germany
prior to World War II. This new-found
power facilitated the establishment of
Israel, the transformation of the United
States and other Western nations in the
direction of multiracial, multicultural
societies via large-scale non-white
immigration, and the consequent decline in
European demographic and cultural
preeminence. 73 The critical Jewish role
in Communism has been sanitized, while
Jewish victimization by the Nazis has
achieved the status of a moral touchstone
and is a prime weapon in the push for
massive non-European immigration,
multiculturalism, and advancing other
Jewish causes.

The Jewish involvement in Bolshevism
has therefore had an enormous effect on
recent European and American history. It
is certainly true that Jews would have
attained elite status in the United States
with or without their prominence in the
Soviet Union. However, without the Soviet
Union as a shining beacon of a land freed
of official anti-Semitism where Jews had
attained elite status in a 96 Vol. 5, No.
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short period, the history of the United
States would have been very different. The
persistence of Jewish radicalism
influenced the general political
sensibility of the Jewish community and
had a destabilizing effect on American

society, ranging from the paranoia of
the McCarthy era, to the triumph of the
1960s countercultural revolution, to the
conflicts over immigration and
multiculturalism that are so much a part
of the contemporary political landscape.
[74]

It is Slezkine's chief contention that
the history of the twentieth century was a
history of the rise of the Jews in the
West, in the Middle East, and in Russia,
and ultimately their decline in Russia. I
think he is absolutely right about this.
If there is any lesson to be learned, it
is that Jews not only became an elite in
all these areas, they became a hostile
elite -- hostile to traditional peoples
and cultures of all three areas they came
to dominate. Until now, the greatest human
tragedies have occurred in the Soviet
Union, but Israel's record as an
oppressive and expansive occupying power
in the Middle East has made it a pariah
among the vast majority of the governments
of the world. And Jewish hostility toward
the Europeanderived people and culture of
the United States has been a consistent
feature of Jewish political behavior and
attitudes throughout the twentieth
century. In the present, this normative
Jewish hostility toward the traditional
population and culture of

the United States remains a potent
motivator of Jewish involvement in the
transformation of the U.S. into a
non-European society. [75]

Given this record of Jews as a hostile
but very successful elite, I doubt that
the continued demographic and cultural
dominance of Western European peoples will
be retained either in Europe or the United
States and other Western societies without
a decline in Jewish influence. (Perhaps
more obviously, the same might be said
vis-à-vis the Palestinians and
other Arab peoples in the Middle East.)
The lesson of the Soviet Union (and Spain
from the fifteenth to seventeenth
centuries) is that Jewish influence does
wax and wane. Unlike the attitudes of the
utopian ideologies of the twentieth
century, there is no end to
history.